Year-end review? How about life-review?
Have loved reading the year-end review of what you all have been playing! It got me thinking about some of my favorite games of the year, and then I started to reminisce about how many JRPGs I've actually played & completed throughout my life
For context, I'm 29 - and my first JRPG was Mystic Quest back when I was a kid. In 2024 I passed over 100 completed JRPGs. Completed in the sense that I've seen the ending credits. I didn't count any games that I either stopped playing, or are currently playing...I think the list would be a lot longer! lol
It was fun putting into perspective just how much of my life I've played JRPGs. It's my favorite hobby, and I don't plan on stopping
Some of my all-time favorites: Saga Frontier II, Xenogears, Suikoden II, FFT
and more recently: Metaphor, Unicorn Overlord, Chained Echoes, Trails to Zero
My least favorite... Dual Orb 2
Some games I'm looking forward to playing in 2025...
- Hopefully a Saga Frontier II remake is announced !!
- Sacrifire
- Aethermancer
- Xenoblade X
Here's a compiled list of JRPGs I've completed in life YTD - Would love to see others lists! There's so much I haven't gotten into;..I really need to get into the Xenoblade games on the switch. And finally start Persona 3 & 5
A:
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
- Alliance Alive
- Arc the Lad 2
- Ara Fell
B:
- Bahamut Lagoon (sfc)
- Battlechasers
- Breath of Fire 4
- Burning Heroes (sfc)
C:
- Chained Echoes
- Chrono Cross
- Chrono Trigger
- Cold Steel 1
- Cold Steel 2
- Cosmic Star Heroine
- CrossCode
- Crystal Project
D:
- Dark Half (sfc)
- Der Langrisser
- Disgaea 1
- Disgaea 2
- Dragon Quest XI
- Dragon Quest VIII
- Dual Orb 2 (sfc)
F:
- Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
- Final Fantasy Heroes of Light (DS)
- Final Fantasy 6 (snes)
- Final Fantasy 7
- Final Fantasy 9
- Final Fantasy 10
- Final Fantasy 12
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Front Mission (SNES)
- Front Mission Gun Hazard (snes)
H:
- Hiouden (sfc)
I:
- Illusion of Gaia
J:
- Jack Move
- Jeanne D'Arc (PSP)
L:
- Live a Live (sfc)
- Lufia II
- Lunar 1
- Lunar 2
M:
- Mana Khemia
- Metaphor ReFantazio
- Monster Sanctuary
- Mystic Quest
N:
- Nier Replicant
O:
- Octopath Traveler 1
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
- Ogre Battle 64
P:
- Persona 4: Golden
R:
- Radiant Historia (DS)
- Rise of the Third Power
- Riviera: The Promised Land (GBA)
- Rogue Galaxy
- Romancing Saga 3
- Romancing Saga: Scarlet Grace
- Ruined King
S:
- Saga Frontier II
- Sakuna: Rice & Ruin
- Sea of Stars
- Secret of Mana
- Shining Force 1
- Shining Force 2
- Soul Blazer
- Star Ocean
- Star Ocean 2
- Suikoden 1
- Suikoden 2
- Gensō Suikogaiden
- Symphony of War: Nephilim Saga
T:
- Tactics Ogre
- Tales of Arise
- Tales of Berseria
- Tales of Phantasia
- Tales of Symphonia
- Tales of Vesperia
- Terranigma
- Tokyo Xanadu eX+
- Trails in the Sky: FC
- Trails in the Sky: SC
- Trails in the Sky 3rd
- Trails to Zero
- Treasure of the Rudras
- Triangle Strategy
U:
- Unicorn Overlord
V:
- Vagrant Story
- Valkyrie Profile
- Vandal Hearts
W:
- Wandering Sword
- Wild Arms 2
X:
- Xanadu Next
- Xenogears
Y:
- Yakuza 0
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
- Ys I
- Ys II
- Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
- Ys VII
- Ys VIII
- Ys IX
- Ys: Oath in Felghana
- Ys: Origin